From: Jeremy Evans <code@...>
Date: 2011-08-11T04:34:11+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:38909] Re: Why Ruby has versioned paths?

On 08/11 04:13, V??t Ondruch wrote:
> But for every case you have mentioned, I would prefer to install
> into location with different prefix, e.g. /opt/ruby18 and
> /opt/ruby19 so the version numbers are useless. So again, I am
> wondering if somebody mixes Ruby 1.8 and Ruby 1.9 into one folder in
> reality, not if that is possible in theory.

OpenBSD has ports for both ruby 1.8.7 and ruby 1.9.2, and the ports
use /usr/local/lib/ruby as the prefix for both, with ruby18 and ruby19 as
the program names.

Jeremy